/energy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Energy Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:19:23 +0000 /energy/articles/2422272?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2422272 The city of Port Isabel, Texas, and two environmental nonprofits on Monday sued the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission over its approval of a Lone Star State natural gas project, arguing the agency used a flawed analysis to calculate the impact of pollution. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:06:37 +0000 /energy/articles/2421977?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421977 The IRS finalized a pair of long-awaited tribal regulations Monday governing a taxable income exclusion for welfare benefits and classifying certain tribe-owned entities as tax-exempt to allow them to directly monetize tax credits for clean energy projects. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:01:01 +0000 /energy/articles/2421889?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421889 The nonprofit seeking to stop the U.S. Department of Energy from contracting out nuclear waste storage hit back at the contractor's bid to keep the case out of the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the contractor's own brief supports the nonprofit's position. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:38:12 +0000 /energy/articles/2422030?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2422030 Rail shippers painted a story of different judges reaching opposite conclusions on the same evidence in an attempt to convince the D.C. Circuit to revive their lawsuit accusing Union Pacific, CSX, Norfolk Southern and BNSF of colluding on freight fuel surcharges. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:21:17 +0000 /energy/articles/2422066?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2422066 A Garden State fishery has sued the owner of the Empire Offshore Wind project in New Jersey federal court, alleging that it has "completely and permanently obliterated" the ability to harvest shellfish in the project area and caused it more $25 million in damages. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:07:12 +0000 /energy/articles/2422179?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2422179 Blank Rome LLP has hired a Baker McKenzie litigator who focuses his practice on technology, life sciences, aerospace, government contracts and energy industry-related matters to join the team in Washington, D.C., as a partner, the firm announced Monday. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:55:45 +0000 /energy/articles/2410757?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2410757 Enacting unified leadership and consistent client service standards ensures law firm practice groups connect and collaborate around shared goals, turning a law firm merger into a platform for growth rather than a period of disruption, says Brian Catlett at Fennemore Craig. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:58:04 +0000 /energy/articles/2421703?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421703 A D.C. Circuit panel based its decision to uphold Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris' firing on a mischaracterization of the agency, Harris argued Friday to the full D.C. Circuit, asking the en banc court to override the decision, bring her back to work and preserve MSPB members' job protections. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:54:52 +0000 /energy/articles/2421730?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421730 A Los Angeles jury on Friday hit Johnson & Johnson with a $40 million verdict after a month-long bellwether trial, finding its talc products were a substantial factor in causing two women's ovarian cancer but declining to award punitive damages against J&J, which is facing thousands of talc claims nationwide. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:25:56 +0000 /energy/articles/2420593?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2420593 The D.C. Circuit refused to pause its order for a lower court to reconsider Russia's bid to escape a long-running case to enforce $50 billion in arbitral awards, as an underlying question is also being considered in unrelated enforcement proceedings also involving the Kremlin. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:47:14 +0000 /energy/articles/2421439?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421439 A U.S. Tax Court judge said Friday that he plans to find Eaton's U.S. group transferred ownership of a $14 billion subsidiary overseas in 2012 solely to justify payment of higher interest rates and guarantee fees to the company's new Irish parent. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:15:10 +0000 /energy/articles/2421507?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421507 Duke Energy told the U.S. Supreme Court the government is backing a rival's antitrust claims accusing the power giant of squeezing it out of the North Carolina market simply to help enforcers' own cases accusing Big Tech companies of using a "monopoly broth" to thwart competition. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:54:12 +0000 /energy/articles/2421588?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421588 A Colorado natural gas provider filed a lawsuit Thursday in state court against a landowner and two entities that contracted to build a water pipeline on a farm property, seeking to stop the pipeline's construction, which the company says would run dangerously close to its own interstate gas pipeline. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:26:48 +0000 /energy/articles/2418279?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2418279 While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:21:26 +0000 /energy/articles/2421282?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421282 If the U.S. Supreme Court chooses to hear Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, Colorado, it will have the chance to resolve whether federal law precludes state law nuisance claims targeting interstate and global emissions — and the answer will have major implications for climate litigation nationwide, say attorneys at Liskow & Lewis. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:17:43 +0000 /energy/articles/2421558?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421558 Middle market private equity firm Kohlberg will obtain a majority stake in industrial services company Loenbro LLC in a deal guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Greenberg Traurig LLP, the companies announced. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:57:21 +0000 /energy/articles/2421476?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421476 A Michigan state judge has rejected the state's and residents' attempts to limit what evidence a jury will hear in a January trial on Michigan's liability for the collapse of a privately owned dam that unleashed widespread flooding. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:24:33 +0000 /energy/articles/2421424?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421424 Canadian steelmaker Algoma Steel Inc. must arbitrate its bid to break off its contract for buying iron ore from U.S. Steel Corp., since the contract contains a clause bringing all disputes to an arbitrator in Pittsburgh, a federal judge ruled Friday. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:02:57 +0000 /energy/articles/2411583?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2411583 Susman Godfrey LLP partner Geoffrey Harrison guided energy company Apache Corp. to its recovery of nearly $500 million in a dispute related to decommissioning offshore oil rigs and helped Equistar Chemicals beat a construction contractor's $175 million claim in a weekslong trial, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Energy MVPs. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:01:29 +0000 /energy/articles/2421388?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /energy/articles/2421388 A Montana federal court judge vacated a U.S. Forest Service plan to log more than 16,500 acres in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, saying its failure to consider future impacts on grizzly bears and Canada lynx was arbitrary and capricious.